The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-07
DAILY PRESS COMMENTS
UPON THE RESULTS AND En-
FECTS OF THE ELECTIONS
In the Cities Of Chicago and Cinciu-
nati-PrOhibitiOn Undoubtedly
Defeated I'm Michigan.

CHICAGO, ILL, April 6.-Iu COM
m nting on the result OF yesterdays
election the Times says: "The people
of Chicago have given heir answer, in
no Uncertain tones, to the brazsn de.
msnds Of the hay market banditti for
q sure lder of the municipal govern
ment into their blood stained hands.
The candidate of the red fl q barha.
rians for the Msyorslty has been de-
fsated by majority spproxinatiDg
$4,000, and his associates in the city
and town tickets have suffered ike
righteous fate. The result is a mag
nificsnt triumph for the intelligence
and conscience Of Chicago. 1t is
splendid vindication Of the patriotism,
the common sense and the sturdy
manhood CT the great masses of her
people. 1t is a crushing rebuke to
demsgogues and tricksters Of the Car
ter Harrison type, who, to promote
their uahallowed ambition and lust OF
power, have been dallying with law
lessness and wantonly trihing with
the safety, the prosperity and the
good name Of the community. Il is
uOtlCo W luO WOIlu budb bLAO l1oC VI Ddt-
barism which erst threatened to
sweep away the safeguards Of life,
property and personal rights in this
great city eliminated in the bloody
massacre OF the hay market, aud that,
with the collapse of the rotten dynasty
whose criminal folly and recklessness
first opened a channel for its foul
waters, Chicago is once more on high
and solid ground, secure against the
threatened inundation."
The Tribune says: "This city is set
on hill in full view CT two continents.
Between the FIRE of 1871 and tina
butchery Of 1886, it has become a
beacon light seen and known of En-
rope and America. For it's govern
ment to have passed into the hands
of the socialists by thes voice of the
people at the first city election after
the anarchist outbreak would have
gladSeued the heart OF every enemy
Of society and orderly institutions the
world over"
ut is greatly 10 tho credit of the
Chicago Democracy that the monstrous
advice Of the man who for eight years
was repujisted. No doubt a good
many Democrats staid away from the
polls, but with commendable enthusi-
asm large number Of those who went
did their duty as voters"
The later Ocean says; "The over
whelm,Dg majority cast for Mr.. Roche
is al expression of disap croval OF fur
ther essays toward class government.
1. IS DO: evidence of pubic hostility
to labor organ cations, though it lie "a
undesirable protest to the desires of
dig 1chs who cho1se to call them
selves socialists. The vote in detail
shows that Democrats voted honestly
for the whole Republican ticket. The
socialists and their allies received ma
joities in but two Of the eighteen
wards, and they elected only one
member of the Council. They chal.
leuged the ctizsDs of Chicago to
trial Of strength, and they have their
ans Ger."
THE NEW YORK PRESS.
New York, April 6.-The morning
papers comment at great length on the
result OF the Western elections. Ths
Sun says: Cincinnati and Chicago are
among the most important cities of
the Union. Naturally they are both
strongly Democratic, and yet in each
of them the Democratic party
appears to be either utterly democrat
lied or badly over 6helmed.
1t may be said that the Democratic
party has been wiped out in Chicago
and crushed in Cincinnati. In view
of such facts the administration in
Washington cannot be held blsmeless.
II there had b;en ali earnest, uncom-
promising Democratic spirit in the
Presidency, an earnest, uncom promis-
ing Democratic spirit would have ex-
isted aGd grown potent in every part
OF the land.
stThe World says: 1t is specifically
correct 10 say that the prohibition
movement aud the labor disafection
have caused the demoraliz atom of the
old parties witnessed in tue recent
elections. Bot what are the causes
back of these? What has led the ul-
ira temperance men to organize third
partyP What leads laboring men TO
break away from their old party
tiesP The labor movement in politics
ia the outgrowth of the feeling that
our laws and the conditions of life Gre
ated by them are no longer equal; ihst
the government is. conducted in the
interest of the rich and the privileged,
and that the old parties are either
unwilling or impotent to remedy
this Injustice aud correct exist
ing evils. And the prevalence and
permanence of this revolt of la
Dor will depend upon what shall be
done, and done speedily, to re-
move sill just cause of complaint.
We look for good results from these
divisions. They will at least tend to
bring the old parties to higher stan
dsrd Of fsithfulness to pubic obligs-
tions. There will be less shrinking
and pledge breaking in Congress here
after as the result of these warnings.
The liquor interest may learn that the
sureet way to invite attempts at pro-
hibition is to oppose just and needed
restrictions upon the traffic. Third
and fourth party movements are the
mentors Of our politics. Let the poll.
ticians heed their lessons.